News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Defendants Include a Real Estate Developer, a Loan Officer, a Mortgage Broker, and an Escrow Officer in Cases Stemming From the Collapse of Desert Sun Development in Bend, Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Maurice Antonio, 34, a member of Acoma Pueblo who resides in Acomita, N.M., was sentenced yesterday to time-served, a total of 410 days in federal and tribal custody, for failure to update his sex offender registration. Antonio will be on supervised release for five years.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: ** 2 Car Motor Vehicle Crash 2 Fatalities, 1 Critical**.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Plymouth man was sentenced yesterday for his role in an investment fraud scheme that resulted in the loss of $3 million to retired clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Claridge, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first 12 months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, 500 hours of community service and a $5,000 fine on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Jose Guadalupe Reyna-Esparza, 21, of Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison for nine years as a result of his conviction of smuggling undocumented aliens, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Reyna-Esparza pleaded guilty Oct. 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.CU.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Donna Harabin, 61, of Clearwater, Florida, who was convicted of making false credit institution entries, was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Gloria Adams, 63, of LaPlace, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 60 months in prison with three years of supervised release for her part in a conspiracy to fill prescriptions without doctors being present. She also was ordered to forfeit $241,793. Adams pleaded guilty on April 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Judge Elizabeth A. Kovechevich today sentenced Marterrance Q. Holloway (33, Tampa) to 9 years and 8 months in federal prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States Treasury through committing tax fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of his sentence, the court entered a forfeiture...
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed H.Res. 434, a bipartisan resolution honoring the life, accomplishments and legacy of Nelson Mandela and expressing condolences on his passing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, Southeast Division, and Major Camille Soverel, Regional Commander, South A Region, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David Kellner, 49, of Delevan, N.Y., the former president of the Transport Workers Local 2020, who was convicted of filing a false financial report with the Secretary of Labor, was sentenced to two years probation, to include six...
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the House of Representatives passage of H.R. 3509, the Assessing Progress in Haiti Act of 2013, authored by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), which seeks to provide for greater oversight of U.S. taxpayer...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 10 former employees of the Internal Revenue Service have been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving a total of more than $112,000 in unemployment benefits while they worked at the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Javier Castruita, 45, of Anthony, N.M., entered a guilty plea yesterday to cocaine trafficking charges in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. His guilty plea resolves the last remaining case charged as a result of a multi-agency investigation that culminated in the filing of drug trafficking charges against 28 residents from Doña Ana County, N.M., and El Paso County, Texas, last spring.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today applauded Committee action on a bipartisan package of legislative proposals to improve child welfare in America. The Supporting At-Risk Children Act strengthens and renews adoption incentive and foster care policies; works to combat child sex trafficking; and improves the collection of meaningful child support payments from noncustodial parents living overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced the arrest of Mo Hailong, also known as Robert Mo, for conspiracy to steal trade secrets. The criminal complaint alleges that from on or about September of 2011, to on or about October of 2012, Mo Hailong and other individuals conspired...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: The American industrialist Henry Ford once said, “Most people spend more time and energy going around problems, than in trying to solve them.".
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed Chai Feldblum to continue serving as a Commissioner at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The HELP Committee approved Feldblum’s nomination in October.
